Export qcow2 from ZFS Pool external server without Proxmox

[marciglesias17]

Hello,

I have 2 disks that I saved from months ago with a Proxmox 7.2 installed and machines with ZFS, I have connected these two disks to a the only server running in the office, that I have with Debian 12, I have imported the zfs pool called rpool, is there any way to recover a qcow2 from a ZFS volume that I need to restore and turn on the machine?

Thanks,

 

[LnxBil]

is there any way to recover a qcow2 from a ZFS volume that I need to restore and turn on the machine?

You don't need to recover, just convert it with a command similar to this:

qemu-img convert /dev/rpool/<your-vm-volume> <your-vm-volume>.qcow2

 

[marciglesias17]

I get this error:

qemu-img convert /dev/rpool/vm-101-disk-0 vm-101-disk-0.qcow2
qemu-img: Could not open '/dev/rpool/vm-101-disk-0': Could not open '/dev/rpool/vm-101-disk-0': No such file or directory

How can I find the path to a zfs volume?

 

[LnxBil]

I get this error:

qemu-img convert /dev/rpool/vm-101-disk-0 vm-101-disk-0.qcow2
qemu-img: Could not open '/dev/rpool/vm-101-disk-0': Could not open '/dev/rpool/vm-101-disk-0': No such file or directory

How can I find the path to a zfs volume?

Look into /dev/rpool. It's a directory structure with the actual volumes as block files. There may be a folder called proxmox or data.